Timeline of Kingston upon Hull
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Pre history–15th century

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- c.4900–4000 BC – Hunter-gatherers are present in Sutton-on-Hull, in the north of present-day Kingston upon Hull[1]: 303
 - 750–500 BC – A Bronze Age settlement is present on the site of modern-day Alexandra Dock.[1]: 303
 - 1086 – The Domesday Book records settlements at Sutton-on-Hull, Drypool, Marfleet, Myton and Southcoates.[1]: 303
 - 1275 – Wyke, an area in Kingston upon Hull, is appointed as the customs head port for the north of England.[1]: 304
 - 1279 – Market active.[2]
 - 1282 – Fresh water supply established for the town from Anlaby.[1]: 304
 - 1293
 - 1295 – Parliamentary representation begins.[4]
 - 1299 – Town Charter granted[1]: 304 and town renamed "Kingston-upon-Hull."[5]
 - 1302 – Quay built.[6]
 - 1312 – Holy Trinity Church built (approximate date).[7]
 - 1321–24 – Defences consisting of a ditch and wooden palisade are built around the town.[1]: 304
 - 1331–34 – A meat market is created.[1]: 304
 - 1332 – William de la Pole becomes the first mayor of Hull.[8]
 - 1333 – First documented mention of a guildhall in Kingston upon Hull.[1]: 305
 - 1369 – Trinity House for seamen established.[7]
 - 1377 – Population of 1,557 adult taxpayers are recorded through poll tax records.[1]: 305
 - 1384 – Charter-House Hospital founded.[7]
 - 1402 – Rioting occurs against the mayor.[1]: 305
 - 1440 – Town incorporated and is made its own county.[1]: 305
 - 1447 – The county of Hull is expanded by over 5 miles on the west side of the town.[1]: 305
 - 1486 – Grammar school founded.[4][9]
 
16th–18th century
- 1515 – A fish market is created.[1]: 305
 - 1536 – The Pilgrimage of Grace spreads to Hull.[1]: 306
 - 1537 – Plague breaks out in Hull.[1]: 306
 - 1541 – The town is visited by Henry VIII.[1]: 306
 - 1539 – The last two monastic houses are closed because of the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535.[1]: 306
 - 1575–76 – Outbreak of the plague.[1]: 306
 - 1588 – Repairs are made to the city walls.[1]: 306
 - 1602–04 – Outbreak of the plague.[1]: 306
 - 1637 – Outbreak of the plague.[1]: 306
 - 1640 – King Charles visits.
 - 1642 – Siege of Hull by Parliamentarians.
 - 1673 – Hull has 1,373 households and a population of 6,500.[1]: 306
 - 1681–90 – Hull Citadel is built.[1]: 307
 - 1688 – 'Town-taking': townspeople overthrow the Catholic governor.[10]
 - 1716 – Trinity House marine school founded.[4]
 - 1739 – Hull's first newspaper, the Hull Courant, is published.[1]: 307
 - 1773 – Hull Dock Company formed.[11]
 - 1775 – Hull Subscription Library established.[12][13]
 - 1778 – Dock built.[14]
 - 1780 
- William Wilberforce becomes Member of Parliament for Hull.
 - Jewish community establishes synagogue.[15]
 
 - 1782 – General Infirmary established.[7]
 - 1792 – St John's Church built.[7]
 - 1797 – Cooperative mill built.[16]
 
19th century
- 1801 – The population of the town is 22,161.[1]: 307
 - 1809 – Humber Dock built.[1]: 308
 - 1829 
- United Gaol and House of Correction in operation.[17]
 - Junction Dock built.[1]: 307
 - St Charles Borromeo church opens.
 
 - 1836 – Police force established.[17]
 - 1837 
- Drypool and Sculcoates become part of the borough of Hull.
 - Explosion of the Union Steam Packet in June[18][19]
 
 - 1840 
- Hull and Selby Railway begins operating.[1]: 308
 - Zoological Gardens established.[20]
 
 - 1841 – Thomas Wilson and Company (shipping) in business.[11]
 - 1846 – Railway Dock is established.[1]: 308
 - 1850 – Victoria Dock built.
 - 1851 – Population of Hull is 84,690.[1]: 308
 - 1854 
- Royal Institution opens.[4]
 - Hull and Holderness Railway begins operating.[21]
 - Junction Dock is renamed Prince's Dock.[1]: 308
 
 - 1860 – Pearson Park established.[4]
 - 1861 
- Hull School of Art founded.
 - Population: 93,955.
 
 - 1864 – Londesborough Barracks completed.[22]
 - 1865 – Hull Football Club founded.[23]
 - 1866 – Town Hall, and Exchange built.[4]
 - 1867 – Hull and East Riding College opens.[24]
 - 1869 – Albert Dock is established.[1]: 308
 - 1870 – HM Prison Hull in operation.
 - 1873 – William Wright Dock is established.[1]: 308
 - 1875 – Tram in operation.
 - 1880 – Botanic garden opens.[4]
 - 1881 – Hull Philharmonic Society founded.[9]
 - 1882 
- Marfleet becomes part of the borough of Hull.
 - Kingston Amateurs rugby club formed.
 
 - 1883 – St Andrew's Dock is established.[1]: 308
 - 1884 – Hull Amateur Photographic Society founded.[25]
 - 1885 
- Hull and Barnsley Railway begins operating.
 - Alexandra Dock built.[1]: 308
 - Hull Daily Mail newspaper begins publication.[26]
 
 - 1886 – Synagogue established.[27]
 - 1887
 - 1888 – County borough created per Local Government Act 1888.[4]
 - 1892 – Hull Amalgamated Anglers' Association formed.[28]
 - 1895 – The Boulevard (stadium) opens.
 - 1897 – Hull attains city status.
 - 1898 – The Circle cricket ground is established.[1]: 308
 
20th century
- 1901 – Hull's population is 236,772.[1]: 309
 - 1902 – Hull Telephone Department licensed.[29][30]
 - 1904 – Hull City Association Football Club formed.[1]: 309
 - 1906 – Wilberforce and Historical Museum opens.[4]
 - 1907 – Riverside Quay is established.[1]: 309
 - 1909 – Hull City Hall built.
 - 1911 
- Theatre De Luxe opens.
 - Hull's population is 277,991.[1]: 309
 
 - 1912 – Museum of Fisheries and Shipping and Coliseum theatre open.
 - 1914 – King George Dock is established.[1]: 309
 - 1915 – Pavilion Picture Palace opens.
 - 1921
 - 1922 – Craven Park inaugurated.
 - 1927 
- University College Hull established.
 - Sutton become part of the borough of Hull.
 - Ferens Art Gallery is established.[1]: 309
 
 - 1931 – Hull's population is 309,198.[1]: 309
 - 1937 – Trolleybus begins operating.
 - 1939 – Hull New Theatre opens.
 - 1940 – 19 June: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
 - 1945 – 17 March: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
 - 1946 – Boothferry Park (stadium) opens.[1]: 309
 - 1951 – Hull's population is 295,172.[1]: 309
 - 1961 – Hull's population is 289,716.[1]: 309
 - 1966 – Closure of Western General Hospital.[31]
 - 1968 – Prince's Dock and Railway Dock are closed to shipping.[1]: 308
 - 1971 
- Hull Truck Theatre founded.
 - Hull's population is 285,965.[1]: 310
 
 - 1972 – Hull City Council established.
 - 1974 
- City becomes part of Humberside shire county per Local Government Act 1972.
 - Airport opens in Kirmington.
 - Humberside Police established.
 
 - 1981 
- Humber Bridge opens.[1]: 311
 - Two tornadoes touch down in Hull during the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak of 23 November 1981, causing damage to the Port of Hull and the city's north-eastern residential suburbia.[32]
 - Hull's population is 266,751.[1]: 311
 
 - 1983 – Hull Marina opens.
 - 1985 – St Andrew's Dock closes to shipping.[1]: 308
 - 1986 – Sister city relationship established with Raleigh, USA.[33]
 - 1987 – Spurn Lightship museum opens.
 - 1989 – Streetlife Museum of Transport and new Craven Park (stadium) open.
 - 1991 
- Princes Quay shopping centre opens.[34]
 - Hull's population is 266,180.[1]: 311
 
 - 1993 – Humber Mouth literature fest begins.[35]
 - 1996 – Hull becomes a unitary authority area.
 - 1999 – Arctic Corsair museum ship opens.
 
21st century
- 2000 – Closure of Kingston General Hospital.[36]
 - 2001
 - 2002 – The Deep (aquarium) and KC Stadium open.[1]: 311
 - 2007 
- Hull Paragon Interchange transport complex and St Stephen's Hull shopping centre open.[38]
 - June: Flooding occurs in Hull. 35,000 people are effected.[1]: 311
 - Hull Comedy Festival begins.
 
 - 2008 – The first Freedom Festival (cultural event) takes place.[1]: 312
 - 2010 
- Hull History Centre established.[39]
 - Larkin 25 fest held.
 
 - 2011 – Boothferry Park stadium is demolished.[1]: 312
 - 2013 – Scale Lane Bridge for pedestrians opens.[40]
 - 2014 – Legal sanctions against prostitution introduced.[41]
 - 2017 
- Hull is the UK City of Culture.[42]
 - 13 May: Holy Trinity Church rededicated as Hull Minster.[43]
 
 - 2018 
- January: Banksy work on Scott Street Bridge discovered.[44]
 - 25 July: Bonus Arena opens[45]
 
 
- 2019 
- October: Hull becomes the first UK city to have full fibre broadband available for all residents.[46]
 
 
See also
- History of Kingston upon Hull
 - List of mayors of Kingston upon Hull
 - List of governors of Kingston upon Hull
 - Timelines of other cities in Yorkshire and the Humber: Bradford, Sheffield, York
 
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Further reading
Published in the 18th century
- Gent, Thomas (1735). Annales Regioduni Hullini [History of Kingston-upon-Hull]. York.
 - Bailey, W. (1781). "Hull Directory". Bailey's Northern Directory. Warrington: Printed by William Ashton.
 - Hadley, George (1788). New and Complete History of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
 - Gray Battle, Robert. Battle's Hull Directory, for the Year 1791. Hull: J. and W. Rawson.
 - Tickell, John (1798). History of the Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. Hull.
 - Cooke, George Alexander (c. 1800). "Hull". Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of York. London: C. Cooke. OCLC 258359703.
 
Published in the 19th century
1800s–1840s
- "Hull". Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain. London: George Kearsley. 1803.
 - Bigland, John (1812). "Hull". Yorkshire. Beauties of England and Wales. Vol. 16. London: J. Harris. hdl:2027/hvd.hxjf83.
 - Cragg's Guide to Hull. Hull: J. Craggs. 1817. OCLC 81087411.
 - "Hull". Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20. Manchester: James Pigot. 1818.
 - "History of Kingston-upon-Hull". History, Directory & Gazetteer, of the County of York. Vol. 2: East and North Ridings. Leeds: Edward Baines. 1823. + Hull Directory
 - Watt, Robert (1824). "Hull". Bibliotheca Britannica. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/nyp.33433089888832. OCLC 961753.
 - Frost, Charles (1827). Notices Relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull. London: J.B. Nichols. OCLC 4901297. OL 6929315M.
 - Parsons, Edward (1835). "Hull". Tourist's Companion; Or, The History of the Scenes and Places on the Route by the Railroad and Steam-packet from Leeds and Selby to Hull. London: Whittaker & Co.
 - Moule, Thomas (1837). "Yorkshire: Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull". English Counties Delineated. Vol. 2. London: George Virtue.
 - History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of the West-Riding of Yorkshire, with the City of York and Port of Hull. Sheffield: William White. 1837. OL 24419637M.
 - "Hull and the Humber". The Land We Live In: a Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire. Vol. 4. London: Charles Knight. 1847.
 - Lewis, Samuel (1848). "Hull". Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.). London: S. Lewis and Co.
 
1850s–1890s
- Visitor's guide to the town of Hull. 1852.
 - "Port of Hull". Christie's Shipping Register. Newcastle upon Tyne: John Christie. 1858.
 - Measom, George Samuel (1861). "Kingston-upon-Hull". Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway. London: Griffin, Bohn. OCLC 12433505.
 - "Hull". Black's Picturesque Guide to Yorkshire (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1862.
 - "Hull". Illustrated Official Guide and Tourist's Hand Book to the North Eastern Railway. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M. & M.W. Lambert. 1863.
 - Sheahan, James Joseph (1864). History of the Town and Port of Kingston upon Hull. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
 - Knight, Charles, ed. (1867). "Hull". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.
 - McCulloch, John Ramsay (1880). "Docks: Hull Docks, Shipping &c.". In Reid, Hugh G. (ed.). A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
 - New Hull Guide. Hull: M.C. Peck & Son. 1880.
 - Anderson, John Parker (1881). "Yorkshire: Kingston-upon-Hull". Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. London: W. Satchell.
 - White's General and Commercial directory of Hull. Sheffield: William White. 1882.
 - Wildridge, Thomas Tindall (1884). Old and New Hull.
 - Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull. London: Kelly & Co. 1885.
 - Gross, Charles (1897). "Hull". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.
 
Published in the 20th century
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 870–871.
 - Donald, Robert, ed. (1901). "Hull". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1901. London: Edward Lloyd. 
- Donald, Robert, ed. (1907). "Hull". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907. London: Edward Lloyd.
 
 - "Hull". Handbook for Yorkshire (4th ed.). London: Edward Stanford. 1904. hdl:2027/nyp.33433071387298.
 - Sheppard, Thomas (1922). Handbook to Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. London and Hull: A. Brown & Sons. OL 14010835M.
 - East, W. G. (1931). "The Port of Kingston-upon-Hull during the Industrial Revolution". Economica (32): 190–212. doi:10.2307/2547923. JSTOR 2547923.
 - Wild, M. T.; Shaw, G. (1974). "Locational Behaviour of Urban Retailing during the Nineteenth Century: The Example of Kingston upon Hull". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (61): 101–118. doi:10.2307/621602. JSTOR 621602.
 
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kingston upon Hull.
- Yorkshire. Historical Directories. UK: University of Leicester. Includes digitised directories of Hull, various dates
 - Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Hull, various dates
 
